Week 1
Introduction to the course
Brief history of the Meiji period
The Infancy of Modernity
Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896), Child’s Play (Takekurabe, 1895-96)
Robert Lyons Danly, In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981), 254-87.
Week 2
The Modern “I”
Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), Botchan (1906)
J. Cohn, trans, Botchan: A Modern Classic (Kodansha USA, 2005), part I (pp.13-92)
Botchan (Cont.), 93-170
Week 3
Modernity and Sex
Mori Ōgai (1862-1922), Vita Sexualis (Uita sekusuarisu, 1909), part I (pp. 23-102)
Kazuji Ninomiya & Sanford Goldstein, trans, Vita sexualis (Rutland: C. E. Tuttle Co., 1972)
Vita Sexualis (Cont.), part II (pp. 102-160)
